Michael Gerdes

Michael Gerdes
Michael Gerdes in 2020
Member of the Bundestag
Incumbent
Assumed office 2009
Personal details
Born	(1960-05-23) 23 May 1960 (age 63) Bottrop, West Germany (now Germany)
Political party	SPD

Michael Gerdes (born 23 May 1960) is a German politician. Born in Bottrop, North Rhine-Westphalia, he represents the SPD. Michael Gerdes has served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia since 2009.^[1]

Life

Gerdes joined the SPD in 1976 and later became a board member of the local SPD branch in Boverheide. He has been a member of the Bottrop city council since 1994. There he became deputy chairman of his parliamentary group and chairman of the sports and pools committee.^[2] Since 2009 he has been a directly elected member of the Bundestag for constituency 125 (Bottrop, Gladbeck and Dorsten) and was re-elected to the Bundestag in 2013, 2017 and 2021.^[3] He is also a member of the regional council of the Münster administrative district. Until 2017 he was also sub-district chairman of the SPD Bottrop.^[4]

He became a member of the bundestag after the 2009 German federal election.^[5] He is a member of the Committee for Labour and Social Affairs.^[6]

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